Sentences with phrase «though gerwig»

The race for best director has been fairly tight, though Gerwig and Peele both emerged as likely candidates early on in the race.

These nominations mean that Gerwig and Peele have a real shot at getting nominated — though Gerwig will likely be the lone woman represented in this category come March.

Though Gerwig is still based in New York, Lady Bird could perhaps be her symbolic «hello to all that» moment, a statement piece that marks a new era in her work.

Though Gerwig's mainstream debut could be traced back to No Strings Attached, most probably know her from her eponymous role in Noah Baumbach «s Frances Ha in which she was nominated for many accolades, including Best Actress in Motion Picture Comedy or Musical at the 2013 Golden Globes.

The film, which has earned $ 10 million at the box office thus far, is also up for several Independent Spirit Awards, though Gerwig was surprisingly snubbed in the best - director category; Lady Bird is the multi-hyphenate's feature directorial debut.

Though Gerwig's presence has lightened Baumbach's touch, it challenges the prickliness of his work without dispelling it.

Even though Gerwig doesn't appear in the film, her voice is present and the story hits close to home - similar to how her other films have in the past.

Not exact matches

Gerwig can't make her character come alive, though, and neither can Adam Brody as one of their neediest male cases.

Though she began her career with playwriting ambitions, Greta Gerwig soon skirted to fame as one of the preeminent actresses in «mumblecore» films.

This surprise, small budget, black - and white - collaboration between writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg 76, The Squid and the Whale 82) and writer / star Greta Gerwig looks at the post-college life of Frances (Gerwig), an apprentice dancer fumbling though life in New York City.

Though it would be easy to say that Lola Kirke is MVP here, mainly because her character is the one with whom it is most easy to relate, the majority of kudos deserves to be directed at Gerwig, who has managed to create a character who consistently deflects our empathy, but in a strange and not - altogether - comprehensible manner, she still opens herself up enough to earn it.

The film belongs to Stiller and Gerwig, though (and maybe to the adorable dog Mahler, the magnet that keeps bringing Roger and Florence together when it seems they no longer can stomach each other).

Though I didn't quite care for the situations their characters found themselves in, Kirke and Gerwig have an undeniable chemistry.

Though director Noah Baumbach's MISTRESS AMERICA (the title referring to a show one of the protagonists wants to create) isn't technically a superhero, I say star - producer - co-writer Greta Gerwig is saving the screwball comedy with her astute takes on interesting characters.

Greta Gerwig's acclaimed coming of age story Lady Bird and Steven Spielberg's The Post left empty - handed, though Jordan Peele's Get Out won best original screenplay, prompting a rapturous standing ovation that cemented his elevation to Hollywood's elite.

At heart, though, they are all pure of intention and that, says Gerwig, is crucial.

Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.

The glue that really does hold Ha together, though, is Gerwig.

Alternates: It's been quite a year for Greta Gerwig, who costarred in both Jackie and 20th Century Women, though her shot at a nomination is the latter.

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

Greta Gerwig lends her considerable charisma to the role of Nancy Tuckerman, one of Jackie's most trusted advisors, though it feels somewhat wasteful to give an actor of her calibre such little screen time.

Gerwig's lack of an Independent Spirit nomination doesn't help her, though.

As it stands, closing film «Damsels in Distress» — despite the significant intrigue factor of being American maverick Whit Stillman's first film in 13 years, and starring rising indie princess Greta Gerwig — is unlikely to prove sufficient to lure them, though it's a tasty reward for the rest of us.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

Though she said she wasn't hungry, Gerwig is nevertheless remorseful at the sight of the green salad she ordered — save for a drizzle of red wine vinaigrette, it's an otherwise unadorned pile of Bibb lettuce leaves.

The execution of this story, though, avoids anger and resentment against such a system (A dead - end character of an American exchange student - turned - activist, voiced by Greta Gerwig, provides that angle to little narrative or thematic effect).

Spielberg himself got shut out, though, with Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig taking the directing award.

Though your films aren't documentaries, you do blend reality and fiction, such as when Frances (Greta Gerwig) visits her parents in Sacramento in «Frances Ha.»

Gerwig tackles this ordinary middle - class experience — influenced, though not directly inspired by, her own Sacramento upbringing — through a fluid, intoxicating blur of montage, pulling Lady Bird forward through time.

Though here, Gerwig really does need work and actually has a viable plan to advance her career as a dancer — it just doesn't work out the way she plotted.

According to her actors, though, assuming the role of director came intimidatingly easily to Gerwig.

Gerwig's Abbie puts finality into the mix with her talk of treatments, while Elle «s Julie, though sexually active in the film, finds it boring and wants to do something with her life.

Annette Bening definitely gives her best performance since «American Beauty», though it's Greta Gerwig (who I have never had any love for before here) that really shines.

Timberlake's team said yes, though the singer didn't formally respond to Gerwig's request.

Even without Gerwig's stand - out performance, the dialogue is witty (though not quite as brutal as Baumbach's previous offerings, which may disappoint some), it's deftly humorous, and filled with an honesty that manages to be sweet without being saccharine and wrenching without being devastating.

I suspect McDonagh wins the eventual Oscar as well, though I'm rooting for Peele (not nominated here) or Gerwig (Lady Bird) to take it.

The Toronto debut starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore outperformed Miller's previous film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee in its debut weekend (that Screen Media release starring Robin Wright and Keanu Reeves averaged $ 7,496 though it bowed in a dozen locations, and went on to gross just $ 337K domestically).

A similar depth of personal feeling, though perhaps less self - amused, runs through The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), by one of Gerwig's frequent collaborators, Noah Baumbach.

Gerwig hasn't always been known as a director, though.

Though it was rapturously reviewed by critics and beloved by audiences, and received a number of critics and guild awards, the subject matter probably sank the movie's chances with the Academy — but not the sense that Gerwig has many years of great work ahead of her.

8 «Lady Bird»: Even though Greta Gerwig isn't in it, the quirky, engaging writer and director makes her presence felt in every frame of this lovely dramedy.

It would have been great to see one of the female - directed efforts find purchase in the best feature category, though Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Maggie Betts («Novitiate») got some love as breakthrough directors, and Dee Rees» «Mudbound» is set for a special ensemble honor.

Lady Bird is the feature directorial debut of acclaimed American actress Greta Gerwig, though she also co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg previously.

Finally, «Behind the House of the Devil» (5 mins., HD) has West revealing, unsurprisingly (to his credit), his chief influences — Polanski and Kubrick — and contains brief soundbites from Donahue and the awesome Greta Gerwig that add not a whole lot, though I sure like watching them talk.

This is yet another race del Toro (with co-writer Taylor) could win, though one Gerwig should win, for a screenplay that feels both sprawling and quaint, unique and lived - in and full of heart.

We're introduced to Frances (Gerwig, brimming with her usual slightly dazed charm), a twentysomething woman sort of living in New York (though without an apartment to call her own) and sort of training to be a dancer (though she's not an official member of the dance company she works with).

First things first though, let me say that these actresses did some amazing work this year: Julie Delpy in Before Midnight, Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha, Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now, Andrea Riseborough in Shadow Dancer and Rooney Mara in Side Effects were all terrific.

In an effort to relate to her teenage son and provide him with great role models, she enlists two other strong women, Abbie (Greta Gerwig, who is great as always), a cervical cancer survivor and photographer, and Julie (a best - ever Elle Fanning), his bewitching 17 - year - old «girl next door» crush, to help raise him... even though she's doing just fine on her own.

Though shut out of the Golden Globes directing category, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele were both recognized by the more prestigious Directors Guild of America.

Greta Gerwig nearly pulled off the same feat with directing and screenplay noms for Lady Bird, though she wasn't a producer on the A24 pic, which did get a Best Picture nom.